Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Ma, Business, Technology, Acquisitions, Startups, Venturecapital, Vc, Investing, Investment

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

We continue our China Tech series with perhaps the most incredible entrepreneurial journey in history: Alibaba and its indefatigable founder, Jack Ma. How did an unknown 30 year-old English teacher from a second tier Chinese city build the world’s 7th largest company by market cap (and the largest in China) in just 20 short years? This is one story you don’t want to miss.

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0:00.0	Yeah, that.
0:02.0	Here we go.
0:03.0	Like this for Google suggested search.
0:04.5	What happened to Yahoo Steak in Alibaba?
0:07.0	Oh, wait, I forgot about Altaba.
0:09.0	Oh, God.
0:10.0	The remaining company
0:13.3	that wasn't Yahoo.
0:14.5	Al-Tab is worth 10 times more than what Verizon paid for Yahoo itself.
0:20.0	Right.
0:21.0	Oh, they have a website.
0:22.0	Look at this. Company profile, independent, this is on their website,
0:26.2	Altava Inc is an independent publicly traded, non-diversified, closed and management investment company
0:31.6	registered under the 1940 Act.
0:34.0	Wow, what a mess! Welcome to Season 3 episode 5 of Acquired, the show about technology acquisitions and IPOs.
0:53.6	I'm Ben Gilbert.
0:54.6	I'm David Rosenthal.
0:56.1	And we are your hosts.
0:57.8	Today we are continuing our quest to more deeply understand China Tech
1:01.9	with Alibaba.
1:04.0	So before we dive in a few fun facts about Alibaba, they had the largest US-based IPO of all time.
1:11.8	Alibaba is China's biggest tech company.
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